alt Hacker NewsMy sentiment exactly, and I'm not exactly an AI fanboy here. I just don't see why he's viewed as some kind of authority or particularly insightful.
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pydry • yesterday at 8:55 PM
Because he actually analyzes the rather ugly financials of the companies in the bubble.
For some reason the people who hate him the most are the ones most inclined to completely ignore the topics he actually talks about.
They all get hooked on anthropic screeching about ending humanity or some other nonsense and forget that this is a business. A business which is losing gargantuan stacks of cash and is running on the fumes of hype and cope.
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I don't understand his phenomenon either. Listened to a few long podcasts with Zitron. He had about 10-15 minutes worth of ideas and not much beyond that, mostly anecdotal stories about excesses. Nothing of it was particularly novel. Are AI companies in a huge bubble? Most likely. Is there a shitload of grifting? Yes, there is. Is AI itself useful? Not to the degree it's hyped, but yes, it has its uses. And that's about it. Nobody knows how the events will unfold, and listening to speculation feels like a complete waste of time.